The Moving Picture Co. 1914

100 years ago in a long forgotten movie studio... Ellen, an aspiring actress, seeks her "lucky break" in a studio where everything goes wrong.

Filmmaker Mark Kirkland studied Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel & Hardy, as a kid, and with a Super 8 camera his dad gave him, he made films inspired by the classic comedians and developed an interest in visual, cinematic storytelling.

Later, Kirkland went on to win three Emmys directing The Simpsons (25 years - near 80 episodes), and has helped curate the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) collection of cameras. Mark's passion for century-old hand-cranked cameras has led him to make a silent film using those cameras. Husband and wife production team Mark and Leticia (Letty) gathered cast and crew, costumes and props and built sets in their Burbank hills backyard, where the entire film was shot.